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Alan Mowbray

Alan Mowbray

Actor · 1896 – 1969 · London, England, UK

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Mowbray MM, (18 August 1896 - 25 March 1969), was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood. Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, England, he served with distinction the British Army in World War I, being awarded the Military Medal for bravery. He began as a stage actor, making his way to the United States where he appeared in Broadway plays and toured the country as part of a theater troupe. As Alan Mowbray, he made his motion picture debut in 1931, going on to a career primarily as a character actor in more than 140 films including the sterling butler role in the comedy Merrily We Live, and playing the title role in the TV series The Adventures of Colonel Flack. During World War II, he made a memorable appearance as the Devil in the Hal Roach propaganda comedy The Devil with Hitler. He appeared in some two dozen guest roles on various television series. Mowbray was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild, with outside interests that led to membership in Britain's Royal Geographic Society. He played the title role in the television series Colonel Humphrey Flack, which first appeared in 1953-1954 and then was revived in 1958-1959. In the 1954-1955 television season Mowbray played Mr. Swift, the drama coach of the character Mickey Mulligan, in NBC's short-lived situation comedy The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan. Mowbray died of a heart attack in 1969 in Hollywood and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Mowbray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • Movie6.7
  • Movie7.4

    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    1956 · 1.6K votes

  • Movie7.1

    The King and I

    1956 · 419 votes

  • Movie7.5

    My Darling Clementine

    1946 · 501 votes

  • Movie7.6

    My Man Godfrey

    1936 · 406 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Desire

    1936 · 54 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Topper

    1937 · 141 votes

  • Movie7.1

    That Hamilton Woman

    1941 · 95 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Terror by Night

    1946 · 160 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Lured

    1947 · 95 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The King's Thief

    1955 · 12 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Androcles and the Lion

    1952 · 16 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Wagon Master

    1950 · 165 votes

  • Movie5.9
  • Movie7.2

    Captain from Castile

    1947 · 32 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Blackbeard, the Pirate

    1952 · 53 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Mary of Scotland

    1936 · 43 votes

  • Movie6.9

    I Wake Up Screaming

    1941 · 81 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Merrily We Live

    1938 · 41 votes

  • Movie6.6
  • Movie4.8

    You're My Everything

    1949 · 6 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Roman Scandals

    1933 · 25 votes

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    Becky Sharp

    1935 · 28 votes

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  • TV7.0

    Maverick

    1957 · 43 votes

  • TV7.4

    The Red Skelton Show

    1951 · 19 votes

  • TV5.3

    Matinee Theater

    1955 · 7 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV5.9

    Petticoat Junction

    1963 · 42 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    1962 · 139 votes

  • TV6.3

    Burke's Law

    1963 · 12 votes

  • TV7.5
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  • TV7.8
  • TV6.2
  • TV7.2

    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    1964 · 75 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Flying Nun

    1967 · 36 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Bob Cummings Show

    1955 · 8 votes

  • TV6.8

    Startime

    1959 · 4 votes

  • TV6.2

    The Patty Duke Show

    1963 · 18 votes

  • TV6.7

    The Gale Storm Show

    1956 · 3 votes

  • TV5.0

    Mr. & Mrs. North

    1952 · 7 votes

  • TV6.7

    The Life Of Riley

    1953 · 3 votes

  • TV6.7

    Lux Video Theatre

    1950 · 7 votes

  • TV6.8
  • TV8.5
  • TV8.0

    Chevron Theatre

    1952 · 2 votes